tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68326061808399271982012-01-07T11:55:54.365-05:00A crazy world as observed by Richard Carlsen and Russell Carlsen.Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-60933007077339567622012-01-07T11:55:00.001-05:002012-01-07T11:55:54.503-05:00

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Greetings all! I hope you're hungry for one heavy sandwich today. Again, sorry for those of you who wait with baited breath for me or Richard to post something, but when you think about it....shouldn't you be doing something more productive anyway?Time for updates: I've decided to enter Script Frenzy for the month of April. The idea is that you spend the month of April to write a 100 page

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Anyone who has had a five-minute conversation with me knows that I’m a pretty out and proud atheist. I don’t believe in the supernatural. God, gods, and “Quantum” gods (See: Deepak Chopra) all fall into the same pile of bullshit for me. However, I do acknowledge the spiritual need. By spiritual, I suppose I really should say psychological, because that’s really what is. It’s a need for

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Today was a good day at work. I was actually tasked to do some actual writing for a potential ESPN TV spot and I literally couldn't sleep at night I was so excited.Let me start from the beginning.The company I work for does work on does various branded material for ESPN. Meaning that we make commercials for various products and tie them into something sports related, typically whatever is the

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I'm starting a segment on Lack of Command called web video sandwich. Where it will consist of three posts from my random digging around on the web and it will usually connect in some form or fashion. I figure this will be an easier way to keep posting on this thing without having to do an excess amount of work. So here's my middle east web sandwich:Starting with the bottom bread of your friend

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Sorry for the long break folks. But I've amended the command sequence for this blog. I've realized that ramblings don't really count as writing. Hell, that's what Facebook and Twitter are for. So I'd rather take my time with this shit and make quality posts for ya'll to read. In short, one post a day isn't worth the the stress, so I'm changing it to three posts a week. Three good ones, not just "

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So you haven't guessed, I've given up on my initial premise unofficially of writing a blog post at least once per day. I figured that I do need a weekend to not do anything and I don't regret. It's not that I'm not going to try to post on my weekends, but I'm not going to whine about not getting any thing done. On the other hand my ACTUAL writing on this screenplay has reached really new heights.

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I'd say sorry for ripping you off.But we both know the truth.Command Image: Laatste Uur Afgewerkte Command

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I'm going to make this fast because I'm going to see Weedeater, ASG, and Naam tonight at Santo's Party House. I've been excited for this show for a while, although the original announcement for this show was Zoroaster instead of Naam, which I would have preferred. Not because I don't love Naam, which I do, but they play here all the time and I'm dying to see Zoroaster live. One day it will happen

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Had longer blog. Now it's gone. Sucks for you.Save your brain.Command Image: technology command

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Today was a good day. It started with me giving Sleepy Sun's new album Fever. But a strange thing happened at work today. Last night I got an e-mail from my boss about a meeting regarding the marketing strategy of this web series we've been working on. The e-mail was addressed to two other co-workers. My boss walks in and says that three of us are the best options the company has about pop

Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-9836677439262642882011-02-21T23:41:00.001-05:002011-02-21T23:41:45.369-05:00

So I didn't get a chance to sleep last night. One of the reasons I hate waking up so early is 9 times out of 10 I spend the night worrying about being able to wake up. Its the worst kind of cycle. Working as a Production Assistant without any sleep wears shard on your mind and body. My only solution is to keep going as hard as I can, fueled by a coffee frenzy. Luckily the shoot is easy enough.

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Happy Sunday viewers.In writing that response to my Uncle Tom, one of the reasons I actually enjoy doing it is because it is the most important question isn’t it? Not just the god question, but the question of existence and reality. One of the worst parts of secularism is that there is an inherent requirement to admit a notion that nothing is written in stone and therefore nothing is sacred. But

Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-61119012804936263692011-02-20T12:33:00.007-05:002011-02-20T13:11:06.460-05:00

So the purpose of this blog was to get me to get off my ass and start writing again. Which has worked. But I didn't get to post something yesterday so you'll get two posts today. Because I did indeed write, I just didn't write with the blog in mind. But I'll post what I wrote for the hell of it.For the past few months my uncle and my three brothers have been in correspondence over an argument. My

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Hello. Sorry about last night. Not really. Good thing about this blog is it gives me a deadline. I can't work without one.If you don’t give any thought to global politics, you really should. The middle east is pissed. CNN is showing the Bahraini military just killed people protesting. Guardian reports at least a dozen on the body count. Caught on tape.Now, contrast that coverage happening right

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Had a few too many tonight and can't make a decent blog at this moment. So I'll leave you with my new signature so you can know when my heart isn't in it.Save your brain.Command Image:Location:23rd St,,United States

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Hello there my commandless legion. Yes it is I. I have returned to the wonderful world of blogging. And not a minute too soon. The truth of the matter is, that I've grown lazy in my writing. Too lazy. But luckily that innate desire to write can't help but boil over. I'm overwhelmed with ideas, but there is apparently a connection problem between my brain and the pages on which I intend to write

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So last night I had the great pleasure of enjoying one of the many perks of living in New York City in that a band was playing and I had the chance to see them.Enter Harvey Milk.Now with this I want to talk about my history of how I got into Harvey Milk which shouldn’t take longer than a paragraph. I’ve always heard the name Harvey Milk mentioned in the same breath as Neurosis, which is how I at

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Starting a new segment here on Lack of Command. Russell's Rant. I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't just a way for update more than once a month, but I don't think that's such a bad thing. There are some exciting updates in the exposure of Lack of Command. I've started a 365 Day Tumblr project (I'll link it up here for those who are interested) and will be starting a movie review podcast with

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If anything can be said about Richard and I, at least by those that know us personally, we generally think that no subject is taboo. We owe this attitude greatly to our parents. Our mother and father taught us that us as long as we were able to present a reasonable argument, and keep ourselves slightly polite. Okay, so we have disagreements on the term polite. My mother and I have certainly

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Here at Lack of Command, we really do love top tens. Many days and nights of our lives have been spent making "top" lists with friends. Comparing and contrasting and all of that. Being that it's already 2010, but we figured it's still January so our list still counts!Now, there are thousands of "Top Ten Albums of 2009" lists out there. Most of them are marketing strategies, some are the

Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-77043944957848332472010-01-19T12:00:00.005-05:002010-01-19T12:57:17.522-05:00

Well it’s 2010, and we hope you’re prepared for an onslaught of awesomeness from we here at Lack of Command. More on our developments as they…well as they develop. In the meantime, let’s start of off 2010 by getting our hands dirty with another DDSS lesson. REAL dirty.Sludge.Sounds nasty right? Metal’s sub-genres often have a degree of rebellious dominance in their nomenclature. Thrash Metal.

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First of all, I feel really silly posting this right now, but it's happening:I would like to address a group called Anonymous. Bravo.I don't know who you are, nor do I wish to. This message is only a result of my bored curiosity of Scientology jokes. Any YouTube search, the name Anonymous pops up.Here's an example to give people an idea of what I'm talking about. Not only the impact of

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Okay. I will be very very brief. So AMC remade the Prisoner. Normally, I'm in huge defender of updates and remakes. I generally see nothing wrong with old ideas being reformed for contemporary times as long as it remains true to the original ideas and captures the nature of it's predecessor. Especially with an old show like The Prisoner, which is hard show to watch. The Prisoner, the original, is

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We here at Lack of Command are proud debut a new series to our chronicles of insanity entitled "In Defense of..."Whenever the notion strikes us, we will take an aspect or issue that at best doesn't get the respect it deserves. We will present our subjective love for such things in the most unbiased way possible, dissecting the reasons against, while presenting reasons for. We will also invite you

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I don't know how most people judge a music album when they first plug it in. I know that there are many variables to consider, such as how much do you liked the previous album, if this is their debut, who recommended it, etc... I think what makes people's musical taste differ is expectations. Those expectations are usually drawn from either what you know already or what you have been told. For

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So what I wanted to do is write about sitcoms or the new Shrinebuilder track. But instead I'm going vomit this at you, dear public. I simply can't help it.Take a look at this video.Your politics towards health care is not really relevant to me, but what this video shows is that the people who say inspiring words such as: "Abolish all health care" or "expand medicare rather than Obamacare," it

Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-22071216459931938122009-09-17T14:19:00.007-04:002009-09-17T15:45:42.296-04:00

The StoneJosh Homme, guitarist for Queens of the Stone Age and stoner icon band Kyuss, once said that he hates the term Stoner Rock. Admittedly, I’m not a huge fan of the term because I feel it very much pigeon holes the music into only singing about wizards and harsh pipe hits. However, I think the term “Stoner Rock” should stick because the term was created by the bands and the fans. You see

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So here in moving, things are finally settling down and I would greatly like to apologize to my partner and brother for taking so long to post something here in our refuge called Lack of Command.In settling here in NY, I've learned to harness the word swear words with eloquence in my daily speech. And while I'm not as comfortable enough to stretch my legs anywhere on the east coast yet, I hold

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I’m not going to apologize for this; this is going to be political. Russell and I are pretty politically liberal, by pretty I mean very. While we tend to be more radical than most in our beliefs, we always welcome opposing viewpoints, as long as they’re intelligent and respectful. I’ve become very good friends with folks who vehemently disagree with me, albeit the disagreement is usually

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Howdy folks, Russell already apologized for the lapse in posts, but it's not like anyone was really aching for them other than he and I, so with that, back the to the lesson.WinoScott "Wino" Weinrich. Very few names are synonymous with a style of music. Aretha Franklin to Soul, Kurt Cobain to Grunge. People who did not invent their style, but they embody it so much that they might as well

Richard Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090352575096957513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-2893797565764228702009-05-30T18:37:00.006-04:002009-05-30T19:50:04.985-04:00

To the regular follows (all four of you), sorry for the long Hiatus from Richard and I. It's been a crazy week of moving, working, and not writing in this blog.More into what I would like to talk about:Up.Pixar rarely disappoints. Each film that they release is not only visually amazing, but also their films are remarkably character based. Characters that are outrageous and fantastical but

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I wanted to talk about one of the more difficult and least accessible aspects about this genre of music that I love so dear. Last time I alluded to the rockin that most of the bands provide, but now I'm going to bring in the crucial element to the DDSS, one of the cornerstones. Drone. Sounds like a barrel of monkeys huh?What is Drone? Well take your favorite guitar riff and slow it down by

Richard Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090352575096957513noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-45883919307641005242009-04-19T09:58:00.005-04:002009-04-19T10:49:17.138-04:00

A note about the internet.I recently signed up for Twitter. You can see my little...*sigh*..."tweets" lower on this page. Other than updating photos for this site, I can really find no real purpose for it. But then I thought...Why is Twitter so bad? If it is, it's just as bad as Facebook, MySpace or even this site?You've got me there. The internet is strange place for a human being. We've been

Russell Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379509406444790341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-91154416451712653852009-04-17T12:39:00.002-04:002009-04-17T13:26:27.014-04:00

So, I don't like to be referred to as a "television junkie." I think somebody who is a television junkie is somebody who likes ALOT of crap. It's like that commercial where the dude reached the end of the internet. What fucked up shit did that guy sift through?So I am not "television junkie," rather I am television snob. Out of all my interests, TV is the one thing I truly feel I am a

Richard Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090352575096957513noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-51642361881707944942009-04-15T05:15:00.008-04:002009-04-15T07:13:17.027-04:00

It's going to be a rough couple of weeks folks. While I'm still trying to find my keyhole into the Western Metropolis of Los Angeles by applying for internships. So while I survived my hardest day of classes. So I had some thoughts that I would like to share with you since I'm exhausted and need to oxidize my brain a bit. With that in mind....Away we go.So in parts of three.Part one:Tuesdays

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Don't get me wrong, I loves me my speedy, ear bleeding metal. There is some sort of primal satisfaction I get while listening to some fast, harsh, metal. Amon Amarth makes me want to take up arms and join my fellow vikings in arms and have a Ragnorok up in someone's shit.But for my money, I think that the Doom and Drone of Candlemass or Boris and the Sludge and Stone of Acid Bath and Pentegram

Richard Carlsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090352575096957513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832606180839927198.post-36848781482506941632009-04-09T17:59:00.005-04:002009-04-10T03:32:19.687-04:00

So a few weeks ago some friends and I decided to exchange mixes based on themes that we could come up with. It started out simple enough and we thought it was a good way to hang out with one another without actually having to hang out with one another. Also, it's a great way to get in with certain music taste that I might not be exposed to. It's a nice way to archive your friends emotions

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Greetings and hello.There isnt much to report. It is late at night and I just started this becasue I am looking for an outlet to say shit and share some thoughts and uber-servations on stuff that I find interesting. I am staying up late lately and I like to let some of these randomness out of me some time. For example:Lately I've been SUPER into:Mystery Science Theater 3000Sludge, stone, doom

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